re: #60 FurryOldGuyJeans

So why, pray tell, would they persist in holding up a fiction of pretending he is still alive?

See above; it isn’t fiction or non-fiction, it’s simply the way assessments of such things work. There’s no downside to writing up an assessment that supports Binny being alive even if it turns out to be wrong; writing one up that claims he’s dead that turns out to be wrong is a career-ender. See “erring on the side of caution.”